I know that they all use asymmetric encryption, but I don’t understand their differences and applications. Any guidance is much appreciated!
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PGP is mostly used for text messages between people, like email. You typically send the decoding key out to people, and a lot of people might have it. or you might make it public so everyone has it, and it doesn’t really encrypt anything, but proves you are really you, since you are able to ‘sign’ things.
SSH is generally to talk one machine to one other machine. If you want your laptop to connect to one linux server you make one SSH for key. Multiple computers can use the same key and it works, but the idea is one to one. you download it and one computer can talk to another computer.
SSL is good for automatic connections. Anyone can go up to an encrypted website and get a key to talk to it, so no one else can read what you are doing with it, but it’ll give one to anyone.
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